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Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax issued a statement denying both allegations as a "coordinated smear campaign." He said the latest accusation, that he had raped a fellow student at Duke University in 2000, was "demonstrably false" and declared he would not step down. Fairfax, 39, insisted earlier this week that his encounter with a woman who has accused him of forcing himself on her sexually at a hotel in Boston 14 years ago was entirely consensual. The second in line to succeed Northam, Att... Tags: News, Boston, Virginia, Fairfax, Duke University, Mark Herring, Northam, Justin Fairfax

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police say 39 people have died and another 27 fallen sick from drinking spurious liquor containing toxic methanol in several villages in the northern India. Senior police officer Ashok Kumar says 26 died in two separate incidents in the state of Uttar Pradesh, 306 kilometers (190 miles) east of capital New […] Tags: News, India, Ap, Nation, New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Ashok Kumar, Nation & World

Mountain Sounds festival called off by organisers a week before event was due to take place on central coastA New South Wales music festival has been cancelled just a week out from the event, and the organisers say it’s “another example of the government’s war on festivals”.Mountain Sounds festival was due to be held on the central coast next weekend, but on Saturday the organisers announced it would not be going ahead. Continue reading... Tags: Music, Australia news, Festivals, New South Wales, Sydney, Music Festivals

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Wall has a history of trying to play through pain. His latest setback is forcing the Washington Wizards guard to take a different approach. “I guess God is telling me something,” Wall said Friday night about the ruptured Achilles tendon that will force him to miss at least the majority of […] Tags: News, Washington, Sports, Ap, Wall, Washington Wizards, John Wall, Achilles

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green had an early exit from their 117-107 win against the Phoenix Suns on Friday night — though not for anything he did during the actual game. With just 3.3 seconds left in the third quarter, Suns forward Kelly Oubre Jr. had a huge putback dunk, which gave Phoenix a three-point lead. Almost immediately, Green had picked up a technical foul and was thrown out of the game, as he had already picked up a technical foul in the first quarter. Tags: News, Phoenix Suns, Green, Golden State Warriors, Phoenix, Suns, Draymond Green, Kelly Oubre Jr

The obsession over engineering as a career is devouring this country and its youth, for no other talent is recognized by parents and teachers these days. While art, music, sports are losing its potential champions to coding and the chase for H1B, there are engineers who gave up on that lucrative job to pursue their passion. Meet 11 of them from Bollywood. Tags: News

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — On his first trip to Iowa as a presidential candidate, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker urged Democratic activists and black leaders on Friday to heed his call for social justice and apply it to the fight for universal health care coverage and a fair criminal justice system. Tags: News, Ap, Iowa, Booker, IOWA CITY Iowa, New Jersey Sen Cory Booker

There was still some hard work to be done ahead of the upcoming summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a Washington envoy said Saturday after three days of talks in Pyongyang. Stephen Biegun, the US Special Representative for North Korea, said preparatory talks had been productive, but more dialogue was needed ahead of the summit scheduled for Vietnam from February 27-28. Biegun on Saturday briefed South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha on his Pyong... Tags: News, Washington, North Korea, US, Vietnam, Donald Trump, Pyongyang, Trump, Kim Jong, Kang Kyung, Kim Trump, Stephen Biegun, Biegun